From 60052659b98832c78c902e4f27ecee2663d8e913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastiano Tronto <sebastiano@tronto.net>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 08:30:49 +0200
Subject: Added scripts

---
 scripts/clip | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/clip

(limited to 'scripts/clip')

diff --git a/scripts/clip b/scripts/clip
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b7bab10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/clip
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# A primitive clipboard manager. Saves the current selection and clipboard
+# to a temporary file and shows all saved selections in dmenu for the user
+# to select one. Duplicate selections are avoided.
+
+# Bugs (wontfix): the program fails if it can't create the temporary
+# directory with the designated name.
+
+# Usage: clip [-m menu]
+
+# Requires: xsel, dmenu (or similar)
+
+menu="dmenu -i -l 25"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "Usage: clip [-m MENU]"
+}
+
+while getopts "m:" opt; do
+	case "$opt" in
+		m)
+			menu="$OPTARG"
+			;;
+		*)
+			usage
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+shift "$((OPTIND - 1))"
+
+dir="/tmp/clipdir"
+mkdir -p "$dir"
+
+file1="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)".XXXXXX)"
+file2="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)"b.XXXXX)"
+echo "created $file1"
+echo "created $file2"
+xsel    > "$file1"
+xsel -b > "$file2"
+
+# Avoid duplicates
+for f in "$dir"/*; do
+	[ "$f" != "$file1" ] && if diff "$f" "$file1"; then rm "$file1"; fi
+	[ "$f" != "$file2" ] && if diff "$f" "$file2"; then rm "$file2"; fi
+done
+
+list="$(mktemp)"
+ls "$dir" > "$list";
+
+lines="$(mktemp)"
+for f in "$dir"/*; do
+	nlines="$(wc -l "$f" | awk '{print $1}')"
+	fclean="$(echo "$f" | sed "s|$dir\/||")"
+	printf '%s (%s) |    %s\n' \
+		"$fclean" "$((1+nlines))" "$(head -n 1 "$f")" >> "$lines"
+done
+
+selected=$(sort -r "$lines" | $menu | awk '{print $1}')
+if [ -n "$selected" ]; then
+	xsel -ib < "$dir/$selected"
+fi
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